148 (EDIPODIX.T. 



costa arched ; costal area A'ery broad, \\ ith several intercalated 

 nervures ; wings short and broadly subhyaline, with clouded 

 border, widely meshed on the front half, very closely on the 

 hinder half. Hind femora moderately stout, .><ome\vhat constricted 

 before the extremity. 



171. Mecistopteryx rotundata, Wall-. 



CEdipoda rotundatii, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. iv, 1870, 



p. 743. 

 Mecistopteryx rotundata, Sau.^sure, Mem. Soc, Geneve, xxx (1), 



1888, p. 53, pi. ii, fig-. 3. 



Head and pronotum brown, antennae reddish, paler towards the 

 base beneath, abdomen blackish. Tegmina light brown for two- 

 thirds of their length, with whitish subhyaline marks ; a streak 

 below the median nervure near the base ; a large blotch ex- 

 tending nearly across the Ming from 

 the costn, and an irregular band be- 

 yond, spreading out half-way to the 

 base above the submediau nervure, 

 and below it along the inner margin 

 nearly to the base ; outer third of 

 the tegmina subhyaline, indistinctly 

 clouded, and with some darker spots 

 along the costa. Wings bluish hya- 

 line, with the border clouded, the 

 upper half almost as widely meshed 

 as in the American Tryxaline genus 

 Hyulopteryx, and the hinder half very 

 Fig. 105. closely reticulated with pale nervures,. 



Mcchtopterijx rotiindcda. almost as in the Neuropterous genus 

 Nexirotlumis. Hind femora yellowish, 

 inner and lower surface black, with three yellowish bands, the 

 first incomplete above, before the extremity ; knees wholly black 

 above; hind tibia3 black, with a white streak towards the base, 

 and two broad white bands, eight rather irregular black spiues 

 on each side, and whitish tarsi. 



Length 15 mm.; hind femur, 9 mm.; expanse of tegmina, 

 32 mm 



NoETH Bengal. 



Type in the British Museum. 



Genus TRILOPHIDIA. 



Trilophidia, StSl, Recens. Orth. i, 1873, pp. 117, 131 ; Saussure,. 

 Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9), 1884, pp. 56, 157 ; xxx (1), 1888,, 

 pp. 21, 54. 



Type, CEdipoda cristella, Stal. 

 Kancje. Oriental Eegion, Africa. 



Eather slender, pubescent. Antennae slightly thickened to- 

 wards the tip. Scutellum of the vertex broad, sloping, truncated 



